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Page A 2 il?‘|JnrtIanb © bseruer November 17, 2004 Bush Cabinet Shakeup Rice stays in, Powell is out (AP) — President Bush pro moted his most trusted foreign policy adviser to Secretary of State on Tuesday, lapping Condoleezza Rice to replace warrior-tumed-dip- loniat Colin Powell as part of a sweeping second-term Cabinet overhaul. "T he secretary o f state is America’s face to the world and in Dr. Rice the world will see the strength, grace and decency of our country." Bush said of his national security adviser. He thanked Pbwell, a former chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and national security adviser, for work ing "tirelessly and selflessly” on _____________ behalf of the country. l o v a b s i t o ^ d T r ^ i n ^ 11^ 01186 iia f'ona/ Bush’sre » le t 't p‘^ lsl,K l Bush s re-election triggered a top- Condoleezza Rice smiles as President Bush Tuesday announces that she is his nominee for Secretary of State to replace Colin Powell. On the road with Family. 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But w hile she's known around theglobe, her image on the world stage does not rival Powell's. The retired four- star general has higher popularity ratings than the president. AMERICAN FAMILY www arnfam com / Colin Powell gestures during a speach Monday. Rice, raised in the segregate* South, is an accomplished pianis and Russian scholar who Bush sai< was "taught that human dignity i: a gift of God and that the ideals oi America would overcome oppres sion.” Besides Powell and Ashcroft. Education Secretary Rod Paige. Ag riculture Secretary Ann Venemen and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham resigned as Bush sought a fresh start tor a second term. Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, declined to answer questions about whether Bush asked Powell to step down, or tried to persuade him to stay. Ivo Daalder, who served on President Clinton's National Secu rity Council, suspects Powell was nudged out the door. “It was a surprise," he said. "He had been telling people that he wanted to stay.” Peninsula Park. 700 N Portland 5 t John's Community Center, 8427 N. Central Whitaker Track, NE 42nd S Kilhngsworth Wild Oats Market. 3535 NE 15th ‘ Please contact AAHC before attending the lint class and for more information at 503-413-1850 or kdempsey@aahc-portland.org. Please receive approval from your doctor before beginning exercise class. Must be 18 or older Education Secretary Resigns (AP) — Rod Paige, who rose Paige is content to move on after from racial segregation to become o v e rse e in g -B u sh 's education the nation s first black education agenda for four years. secretary, is leaving his Cabinet Paige has presided over the big position in the Bush Administra gest federal shakeup to education tion. in a generation, a law demanding Paige, 7 1, came to prominence as that schools show improvement an award-winning superintendent among all students, regardless of in Houston before becoming secre race or wealth. Paige, who grew up tary in a time of huge change in in segregated Mississippi, puts No Rod Paige federal education policy. An out C hild Left Behind in the category of spoken defender of" demanding Behind, the law at the center of Brown v. Board of Education, the more from schools, he has been the Bush's domestic agenda. landmark case that ended separat public face behind No Child Left The administration official said ing schools by race. Arafat Buried at Ramallah (AP) — Yasser Arafat was bur ied Friday in the place where he spent his last years as a virtual prisoner, seen off in a huge and chaotic outpouring of grief for the man who embodied the Palestinian people’s dream of statehood. Police firing in the air failed to restore order as the tens of thou sands of mourners rushed toward the coffin, struggling to be close to their leader-hailed as a Nobel Peace laureate and branded a terrorist - for one final time. "President Arafat would have wanted it this way. with exhilara tion, feelings of loyalty, pain, sad ness and love all at once." Palestin ian legislator Hanan Ashrawi said. ivruurnurs pour sand trom Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque into : The frenzied burial took place at underground burial tomb where Yasser Arafat's casket was Arafat’s headquarters in the West placed Friday. (AP photo) Bank city of Ramallah, where Israel was the quiet weeping of Arafat's formal farewell to the 75-year-old hud kept him under siege for nearly 9-year-old daughter, Zahwa. stand Palestinian leader, his burial in three years. It came just hours after ing beside her veiled mother, Suha. 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